When nodes are involved in both contact (penalty) and prescribed motion, contact failure is expected to occur. This is because the boundary conditions are always processed after all the contacts are handled that results in nodal accelerations being updated to enforce the boundary conditions. I will soon publish some examples to illustrate this phenomenon.
The LS-OPT Version 4.0 beta release is now available at: LS-OPT 4.0 The Presentations folder has an overview and outlook of LS-OPT. The main feature is the next generation post-processor (Viewer). Note that LS-OPT/Topology will be available later in 2009 as a separate module.
You can download the LS-DYNA 971 r4 Manual (PDF, 11.5 Mb) Update The broken link has been fixed
Discrete beams, like discrete springs, require valid mass at the nodes to compute the timestep. Unlike continuum based elements, the length of the discrete beams, are not used in the timestep calculations. Hence realistic density in the discrete beam material model must be used. There are two methods this can be achived. Density (RHO) in…
Starting version 3.0, LS-OPT supports the definition of discrete variables. Discrete type of design parameters are helpful when there is a need to find the optimum values from a “set” of values. A good example would be the choice of element formulation. The possible values for LS-DYNA for a quad can only be a subset…
LS-OPT is widely used to optimize designs or parameters using a number of experiments obtained by running LS-DYNA simulations. The number of experiments (simulations) per iteration is dependent on the number of variables defined in LS-OPT in addition to the type of point-selection (DOPT, LatinHyperCube, etc). When a large number of simulations are involved, it…
LSTC has introduced a free limited LS-DYNA version for U.S. unemployed LS-DYNA users as a result of the current poor economic conditions. A free LS-DYNA course may also be introduced in the coming months. Please contact Marsha Victory at 925 449 2500 or send her an email at marsha@lstc.com.
In LS-OPT, one can run a multi-disciplinary optimiztion or a multi-solver type optimization problem, where the variables can be shared among the different solvers. In performing DOE or any optimization using LS-OPT, it is important that consistent experimental points are used in the evaluations. To ensure this, one can use solver experiment duplicate solver_1 command…
TIED contacts help “bond” two surfaces of different mesh densities. When using the default constraint method, the projection distance of the slave node onto to the closest master segment must be zero and this is achieved by LS-DYNA by updating the slave node coordinates such that it lies on the master surface. This coordinate update…
In a previous post about a simple Python script that scans a LS-DYNA input file to package all INCLUDED files recursively so the entire model can be compressed and sent to the recipient. Based on some new suggestions, largely by Brian Wainscott, I have attached a revised script that handles the included files a little…
